Metro Mondego

Studies and planning were in progress but the Metro Mondego project was cancelled in January 2011 at the height of Portuguese financial crisis.

The operational conventional rail line connecting the municipalities of: Coimbra, Miranda do Corvo, Lousã, and Serpins was closed at the same time and replaced by a bus service.

This would have involved street running along Ave. Emídio Navarro and Ave. da Lousã between the two existing stations of Coimbra and Coimbra-Parque.

There was a single un-electrified track along that street section used once a day for a scheduled train.

Travelling north, the trains ran in the opposite direction to road traffic along a one-way street.